The overwhelming majority have varying degrees of educational attainment: 2.5 million pre-school; 46,000 special education; 30.2 million some to complete elementary; 32.9 million some to complete high school; and 21.5 million some post-secondary to postgraduate education.

The educational status of some 128,000 individuals was “not stated.”

The number of Filipinos who did not finish any grade level dropped from 3.3 million in the 2010 census, then comprising 4 percent of the total 81.9 million aged 5 and above.

Censuses are “a complete enumeration of households in the country” designed to “take an inventory of the population of the entire Philippines,” said the Philippine Statistics Authority, the lead agency conducting them.

Sources:

Philippine Statistics Authority, 2015 Census of Population, Total Population 5 Years Old and Over by Highest Grade/Year Completed, Sex, Age, and Region

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